What is a Come and Try?
The beginners course has always been considered the entry point to archery. Sign up; come for 3 or more sessions; learn technique, safety and etiquette; graduate and if you and archery are vibing .....
Author: Glasgow Archers
Gossip Behind the Tent Line: Compound and the IOC
Compound is in the Olympics for 2028 but its coat is on a very shoogly nail. "Why?" you ask. Everyone behind the tents knows the IOC has three great loves: sports that everyone plays,...
Single Arrow Shootoffs: Where in the World is World Archery
World Archery’s HQ can be found in Le Maison du Sport International, Avenue de Rhodanie 54, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland. They took up residence back in November 1996, after decades of the headquarters essentially being...
Hot Fix: One Thing Only Vasily
(Because if Sean Connery can demand one ping only, you can demand one change only.) No matter where you start, every archer eventually ends up fiddling with their bow. New bow, old bow, mid‑life...
Single Arrow Shootoffs: Academically .. What is Archery?
Archery is where a peculiar collection of academic disciplines collide on a wet, windy field in Central Scotland while everyone eats their Captain Sausage supplied snack: engineering in building the bow, economics in buying...
Feeding Time at an Archery Shoot
aka Feeding the 5000 about 70 Ignore the geometric exactitude of setting up the field, the military precision of moving bosses between distances, administering applications, working out the target list, totalling up the scores,...
Drawing Blood
There are injuries in archery that earn respect. Torn shoulders. Sore backs. String slap that resembles a domestic dispute with a nettle. Today's injury, however, is more on the bizarre side. It announces itself...
Field Party in the Wild - American SRS round, 5 July 2026
On the 5th of July, Glasgow Archers ran our first record‑status shoot since 2019. In the intervening years, COVID, field drama, and the usual twists of club life conspired to keep us off the...
Welcome to the Field Party .. We got fun and games
Ever turned up to a competition and thought, "This field looks really organised"? But the funny thing is, bosses don't magically wander into position. Distances don't mark themselves. Someone has to build the entire...
The Bow of Theseus
Archers often find themselves confronting one of philosophy's older questions without ever realising it. Philosophers call it "The Ship of Theseus". Most British readers of a certain age know it as "Trigger's broom". The...
Sessions out – Rounds one to five
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how we had bid for and been successful in getting a grant of just over £5,000 from the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games Festival. Since then we’ve had to start...
Hot Fix: That's Rough
When you shoot a bow, you only touch it in two places: Your hook on the string, and the handle on the riser. We’ve talked about grips before - whole articles, diagrams, the usual...
What Happens After the Beginners Course?
Congratulations - you’ve survived the beginners course. You’ve got your certificate, you know etiquette, you can now chant the safety rules like they were handed down on stone tablets by a very tired Moses....
What's the Difference between 50m and 70m?
(Or: “Why does the target suddenly shrink like it’s been left in a hot wash?”) Five points if you said 20 metres. Minus ten if you said it smugly. And if you’re the sort...
What Happens to Your Arrows After You Shoot Them?
Archers spend an extraordinary amount of time thinking about the front end of the shot. The kit, the form, the checklist, the ritual, the “don’t pluck, don’t collapse, don’t sneeze” internal monologue. We obsess...
An Archery Star is Born
One entire Sunday morning recently we had a film crew with us from the Commonwealth Games. They found Finlay to have presence, star quality and charisma ... at least his beard did. Finlay not...
Parallel vs Barrelled Shafts
We do our best to be a practical guide for archers, beginners, and anyone who’s ever watched an arrow do something it definitely wasn’t supposed to. However, sometimes a subject, even though significant, isn't...
GA at the Commonwealth Games
As you are no doubt aware, Glasgow is hosting the Commonwealth Games this summer. It is a truncated version, featuring only 10 sports, one of which is not archery. So we thought - why...
We need to talk about … the Glasgow League
Hope I’ve given it long enough to talk about this now, but for anyone still traumatised by the outcome of this year’s Glasgow League, look away now … GA takes part in the Glasgow...
Funeral Service for X10 #5
As Conducted by the Glasgow Archers Congregation of Mild Chaos Order of Service Opening Remarks Reading from the Book of Easton The Life and Death of X10 #5 Reflections from the Shooting Line Hymn:...
